Princess-savvy mom shares wise response

As a mother of five daughters, Lisa Eberts happened naturally upon her recent submission to the Dispatch Caption-Writing Contest.

As a mother of five daughters, Lisa Eberts happened naturally upon her recent submission to the Dispatch Caption- Writing Contest.

"I was up late wrapping Christmas presents - Snow White and all kinds of princess stuff - for my three young est ones, and the concept just came to mind," said Eberts, a 42-year-old homemaker from Pickerington.

The blank panel - featuring a princess, mouth agape, holding a frog - prompted Eberts to stop her wrapping long enough to send her first-ever entry to the contest.

The idea hit the mark: She won the 37th installment.

"I usually go for the short and quippy captions," said Jeff Stahler, Dispatch editorial cartoonist and creator of the Moderately Confused panel used in the contest. "But this was clever and a very original approach to the princesskissing-the-frog tale."